产品中心

By Tom Simonite TECHNOLOGY has long been distancing the soldiers who fire weapons from the people who get hit. Now robotics engineer Ron Arkin at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, is trying to sever the link completely, with software that would allow drones to make their own decisions about wielding lethal force. He has developed an “ethical governor”, which aims to ensure that robot attack aircraft behave ethically in combat, and is demonstrating it in simulations based on recent conflicts in Afghanistan and elsewhere. In one scenario modelled on a situation encountered by US forces in 2006,